Sen. Warnock called Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program “the real waste, fraud, and abuse.” “This report shows that Pathways is incredibly effective at barring working people from health coverage and making corporate consultants richer.”

The town I moved to is extremely walkable, I love being able to walk to work, the hardware store, the market, and the bakery, but my biggest complaint coming into winter is No Gym. There's a planet fitness on top of the hill, but I would have to drive there.

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss. US Dems could learn a lot from their failure. Great piece from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Today’s #BirdIfTheDay is any bird with three or more colors. I’m wondering if this counts? 😁 🪶 A hummingbird with rainbow 🌈 wings

Trump and Dems are officially meeting Monday. This is after Trump cancelled his last meeting with Democrats because they were holding firm on immigrant and transgender protections. The Republican budget has dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ riders. Call your Dem senators, people, don't let them capitulate.

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

Of the 44 Category 5 hurricanes in the past century, 12 of them occurred in just the past decade. But perhaps more impressive is that of the three hurricanes in this season so far, two of them were Category 5s! #Humberto #TD9 #Imelda

The "abundance" bros sound incredibly out of touch if you've worked in environmental survey or permitting for any amount of time. My group as never stopped a project, or even materially slowed one down because there's massive lead time between design and build for other admin tasks.

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

My mom deliberately overcooks rice because she likes the texture of overcooked rice I guess but anyways for the first 16 years of my life I thought I hated rice because my mom was cooking it wrong on purpose

I'm going to have to travel to a Big City I'm gonna have to drive a whole day to Boston to find hot sauce and when I do I'm gonna fill a wine crate with bottles and bring it back and sell it out of the trunk like a moonshiner

Matchbook vanish - street magic performed by Jeramy Neugin

It's a match - street magic performed by Jeramy Neugin

the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison. if you’re cis you should read this. trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.

Previous monarch tags could only be detected by specialized receivers, but this new version uses Bluetooth just like Apple AirTags, giving us a much better picture of the route each monarch takes on its journey! Learn how you can follow along with their migration ⤵️

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Q: What do you get if you cross a mood ring with a pronoun pin? A: My latest design at canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376... Please share!

My cat bounds up out of nowhere, pretends to pounce on my dog, puts her paw very gently on her head, pretends to bite her ear, then runs a few feet away and looks back to see if my dog will chase her. My dog is 15 years old and doesn't like this game as much as she used to, but occasionally...

Shipping to the US is back at canopyrobin.etsy.com! It's a little more expensive and no longer a flat rate because I need to be able to collect the new tariffs somehow but I am so pleased to be able to ship globally again 🎉

Success! My pottery studio agreed to let me put up one of @sarahmackattack.bsky.social ‘s Leave Your Leaves posters! This is deepest suburbia, so most of the people here have leaves they could leave.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Going up to my hardboiled millennial friends and singing 🎶 do you want to buy a duplex 🎶

Karen is a bright light in a dark time, and her bravery is extraordinary. If you have a few bucks to help her and her gorgeous fluffy cat, please consider donating.

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

We're calling on Calif. Fish & Game Commission to protect the western spadefoot. These frogs were once common in CA but their habitat is under threat. Spadefoots rely on vernal pools but unfortunately these seasonal wetlands are under development pressure. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Frantically giving her as much Churu as possible to get her to look directly into the camera and text the pictures to my vet but in the meantime she's wiped off all the boogers

1. Have an extremely busy week doing lecture prep, training, projects, and Dr's appts 2. Add more to it by volunteering for stuff and things 3. Dog starts coughing, cat gets an eye infection

In a warming India, cases of chronic kidney disease are on the rise among otherwise healthy people. The disease is particularly prevalent in outdoor workers who lack access to water, shade, or rest.

We’ve never seen more than a monarch or two all summer but this year we had a couple hundred spend the night and there were dozens around for weeks! (This was year one of converting our yard to native prairie and we’ve had more butterflies in general, but I’m not sure that’s relevant to these guys.)

I think too many people need something to blame for the existence of disability. But the reality is that disability oftentimes just happens and is a normal part of human diversity and life.

I will be in Japan October 11-November 3rd. By the time I'm back, shipping rates will have increased for the holiday rush. Get an Eel Facts Advent calendar now to avoid the price hike! They are gorgeously illustrated by @ehrenenglish.bsky.social, and have 24 cool facts about EELS!! eelfacts.net

The value of family that doesn't immediately say NUH UH when you tell them the funding for yout position was frozen so you had to find a new job.

Clean energy jobs grew three times faster than the rest of the economy last year. But growth slowed markedly compared to the previous year as clean tech firms braced for a shift in U.S. energy policy.

Guardian: Ship sank suddenly Netflix: so sad it was over before anyone knew anything Brick Immortar: Here is the minute by minute sequence of events of the last 24 hours of this ship

researching a maritime disaster in 2025: Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

This is the technology RFK Jr has banned in the US

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

Republicans are trying to criminalize all lifesaving transgender healthcare nationwide. Again. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO STOP THIS. Democrats in congress have the power to force the removal of these horrific riders, BUT THEY WILL ONLY LISTEN IF WE SHOUT.

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

Earless monitor lizards are being driven to extinction by the exotic pet trade. Just five subpopulations of these real-life dragons remain in their rainforest-covered habitat of Borneo. Tell the Service to give them the protection they need under the ESA ➡️ https://bit.ly/4mvG7Ou #ExoticPetTrade

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

If the SAVE plan had been allowed to take effect I would be two years into PSLF right now, but we're apparently not? Allowed to make payments? Until it's all hashed out in court. So I either have to keep my loans in forbearance and watch the interest increase, or take them out of IDR and pay $$$

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.